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OPP inmate accused of jailhouse rape

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Darren Holmes, 21, was booked on sexual assault charges in connection with two September attacks reported by a 25-year-old man who was being held at the Orleans Parish Prison.
(Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office)

New charges of forcible rape, second-degree kidnapping and oral sexual battery were lodged Tuesday against Darren Holmes, 21, in connection with two September attacks reported by a 25-year-old man who was being held at the New Orleans lockup awaiting extradition back to Texas. Two other inmates also face charges after authorities said they participated in one of the attacks.

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune does not disclose the identity of rape victims. He is apparently no longer at OPP, according to the latest inmate roster. It wasn't clear what his Texas warrant was for.

Holmes is in OPP on charges that he, along with four other men, participated in the violent rape of a 53-year-old home health nurse in Central City in 2012.

In the jailhouse attack, an arrest report says the 25-year-old victim was asleep around 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 25 when Holmes woke him up and shouted at him to get up. The man said he complained that he was tired, at which point Holmes grabbed him by the neck and began to choke him, the arrest report said.

The man told deputies he was afraid of what would happen if he refused, so he complied and got into bed with Holmes. After the assault, Holmes said, "I just gave you AIDS, now go wash up," the man told investigators. The report does not say whether the man contracted a sexually transmitted infection.

The man told investigators Holmes said he knew where his sister lived and then threatened both her and her children's lives.

The next day, the man told deputies, he was raped again by Holmes. This time, the report says, Holmes and two other inmates approached him while he was sitting in the day room area of tier A-4 of the jail. When the man tried to run away to contact a deputy, the three other inmates grabbed him and tied his feet together using strips of a torn bed sheet, the report says.

The man said he was forced to perform sex acts on Holmes while the two other inmates watched.

Those inmates were identified as Glenn Elliott, 19, and Dwayne Miller, 22.

When his attackers heard a deputy open the tier gate, they untied him and fled, the man told investigators.

The man reported the attacks to deputies two days later and was examined at an area hospital. Doctors confirmed there was evidence of a sexual attack, the report says, and DNA testing matched Holmes'.

Elliott, who has also is awaiting trial in the 2012 Central City gang rape, was booked on charges of second-degree kidnapping in connection with the jailhouse assault.